C.M.E.R.
ADVISORY BOARD
Janet Hamburg M.A., C.M.A., R.S.M.T.
is Director of Senior Wellness and Exercise for the
Center for Movement Education and Research. She is a certified Laban Movement
Analyst (CMA), a Senior Research Associate for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute
of Movement Studies, and an associate of the Gerontology Center and a
professor of dance in the Department of Music and Dance at the University
of Kansas in Lawrence. She received her master's degree in dance from
Mills College and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) from
the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City. She
is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) through the International
Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Janet received the
Laban/Bartenieff Institute's first Laban Award for Creative Achievement
by an artist or researcher in 2004.
Her research has focused on coordination problems in children and adults,
movement efficiency for athletes, movement problems of older adults,
and movement therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease. Her
research on Parkinson's disease resulted in an award-winning exercise
DVD/video,
Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson's,
which is distributed by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation in New York
City and recommended by the major national and regional Parkinson's
foundations. Janet is the founder and manager of Motivating Moves, LLC.
For more information about Motivating Moves® visit motivatingmoves.com.
Janet has presented Laban/Bartenieff-based research at national and international
conferences and her work has been published in refereed journals. Her
entry on Bartenieff Fundamentals appears in The
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines. She was the
consultant for Moving and Motivating with Laban
Movement Analysis in the popular press book Mind-Body
Fitness for Dummies, and her Bartenieff Fundamentals-based pre-warm-ups
for aerobic and resistance workouts were featured in Shape
magazine. NBC national television and the U.S. Information Agency's international
program Science World featured her work
with athletes.
She has taught in the Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and
has been a guest teacher at the Juilliard School of Music, the Laban/Bartenieff
Institute of Movement Studies, and the Sports Training Institute, all
in New York City. Janet was a core faculty member of the New Mexico Laban
Certification Program and a guest faculty member for the Laban Certification
Program in Berlin, Germany. She also has taught LMA classes in Australia,
Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Switzerland,
as well as throughout the United States.
